Gerhard Steenkamp
Software Engineer at UMA
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolGerhard Steenkamp is a software engineer with six years of experience building web3 frontends, currently at UMA after a multi-year tenure at Linum Labs where he led frontend development for NFT marketplaces, DeFi protocols and DAOs. He combines hands-on frontend engineering (Next.js, TypeScript, Ethers.js) with product-minded design collaboration, often translating complex smart contract suites into robust, user-friendly interfaces. As a former technical lead he balances day-to-day coding with mentoring and architecture decisions, and his open-source contributions include front-end enhancements to Snapshot v1, improving multi-safe support and transaction handling. His background in business (BCom) and earlier career as a senior teacher inform his clear communication with clients and cross-disciplinary teams, helping surface pragmatic UX solutions for web3’s unique constraints.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Business/Commerce, General, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Business/Commerce, General at Stellenbosch University
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
vue10
vue-jsx10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
html9
css9
responsive-design8
web3js8
solidity4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
snapshot-labs/snapshot-v1
Nov 2023 - May 2024
V1 interface for Snapshot. Join us on Discord http://discord.snapshot.org
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Gerhard primarily focused on enhancing the front-end functionality and user interface of the oSnap plugin within the Snapshot v1 repository. Their contributions include the implementation of a marketing widget, support for importing transactions from a Safe builder, and improvements to the array/tuple validation and integer range checking for inputs. They also worked on multi-safe support, including the ability to gracefully handle network switches for execution and ensure proper user interface interaction.
discordjoinsnapshotsnapshot-testing
UMAprotocol/snapshot
Nov 2023 - Nov 2024
UMA execution with Snapshot
Contributions:19 reviews, 62 PRs, 158 pushes in 1 year
executionsnapshotandroiduma
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